Joshua Green

Political journalist and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Devil’s Bargain

Joshua Green is the author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Devil’s Bargain, the riveting insider account of the rise of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon to the White House. Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign, from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s penthouse on election night. The partnership between Trump and Bannon, Green contends, is the key to understanding the rise of alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in modern political history. The New York Times called Devil’s Bargain “the first deeply insightful political narrative of the Trump era.”

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About Joshua Green

A veteran political journalist who has also written a book about Congress, Green provides audiences eager to understand the political landscape with unprecedented and hard-won insights into the major figures and forces that shape our national affairs.

As a speaker, Green provides a compelling and deeply informed view of our current national politics. Drawing on his experience as a Washington journalist and author, he helps audiences untangle the confluence of circumstances that have upended U.S. politics over the last several years, most dramatically in Trump’s ascension to the presidency. Green’s speeches provide both an unparalleled behind-the-scenes view of the 2016 campaign and the Trump administration, and a seasoned journalist’s assessment of their implications — now and in the future. Audiences will leave informed, empowered, and better aware of the workings of Washington.

Joshua Green has spent his career reporting from the center of American politics. An award-winning magazine journalist, he has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair,Esquire, and Rolling Stone, and is currently a national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek and an on-air political analyst for CNN. Before that, he was an editor at The Atlantic, and began his journalism career at the satirical weekly, The Onion. He appears regularly on CNN shows, as well as PBS’s Charlie Rose, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Just what was it that led to one of the biggest upsets in American political history? Journalist Joshua Green expands on the ideas detailed in his bestselling book The Devil's Bargain and compellingly argues that the best way to understand the power of the Trump presidency and the attitudes of those who voted for him is to understand the mind of former Chief Strategist and Campaign Manager Steve Bannon, a controversial figure who many agree helped Trump clinch the presidency.